#Married #Office Romance Jerica Evans, a devoted wife and clerk at City Hall, feels her world slowly unraveling as the cracks in her once-loving marriage deepen. Her husband, Jared, a high-powered lawyer with a fierce courtroom reputation known as "The Siberian Beast," has grown distant, and his cold demeanor leaves Jerica questioning everything. Once the pillar of her life, Jared now feels like a stranger, more lighthouse than man—steady but unreachable, leaving Jerica adrift in loneliness and suspicion. When she catches him leaving work early with a mysterious woman in a red dress, her world shatters. As she balances her growing suspicion with the suspicious arrival of Harold Braddock, Jerica's former flame, the lines between loyalty, betrayal, and her own desires blur. Her once steady life spirals as her husband’s frosty demeanor and her own emotional wounds collide. As the emotional distance between her and Jared widens, Jerica must decide whether to fight for a love that seems to have slipped away—or walk away from the man who once completed her. What will she decide? What is Jared's secret? Was their marriage truly over? Has she truly stopped loving him? This is a heartstring-pulling journey of love, pride, and the devastating cost of hidden truths and unspoken desires, where one woman must decide if she’ll fight for the man she married or leave him behind to save herself. Please support the book by voting. Leave reviews and tell me what you feel in the comments.
Every polite smile Jerica gave felt hollow, every handshake an unwelcome distraction from the gnawing emptiness building inside her. She moved mechanically, her lips forming words, her body performing the requisite gestures, but her heart was lost, focused on a singular search—for Jared.
The man she had thought she knew, the husband she had loved for so long, now felt like a phantom slipping further away, leaving her grasping at memories.
Her eyes darted across the sea of faces, elegantly dressed in their finest, the polished charm and artificial laughter bouncing off the ballroom's grand chandeliers. The room was magnificent, the kind of place that could have made her feel invincible once. But tonight, the weight of it felt like chains, dragging her deeper into a solitude she hadn't known existed.